Facts You Probably don’t Need

• In “Home Alone,” the photo of Buzz’s girlfriend is actually a picture of the art director’s son wearing a wig, to avoid mocking a real teenage girl.

• According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the only English word ending in “-mt” is “dreamt.”

• The word “nerd” was coined by Dr. Seuss in his 1950 book “If I Ran the Zoo.”

• Roughly 1,000 new words are added to English dictionaries each year.

• A group of hippos is called a “bloat.” Other accepted terms include a herd, thunder, or sea.

•  The infinity symbol is formally known as a “lemniscate.”

• “Schoolmaster” is an anagram of “the classroom.”

• “LOL” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011.

Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.